Re: get ready!

[Michael Lake <mikel@speleonics.com.au>]

"James D. Freels" wrote:
> I predict a flood of unhappy RedHat customers moving to
> Debian/Alpha.  RedHat apparently is no longer supporting
> Alpha starting with v7.2!  The axp-list is starting to buzz
> about Debian.

Yeah but I can understand why! There are lots of things that 
simply don't work for alpha or are hard to setup. 
(Re Netscape, Java, XML stuff) 
Redhat have lots of work to keep up on the Intel platform, 
Itanium is coming out soon {yeah real soon now :-) } and 
they will have that to support and Alpha customers are 
prob a small percentage of their business. 

Couple that to the advertisements that Compaq have put in 
National Newspapers even out here in Aust that they are dropping
Alpha which gives a clear message to purchasers - dont buy Alpha
hardware. So why would Redhat now bother with Alpha? 

Mike
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Michael Lake
Active caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical.
Safety Convenor, Australian Speleological Federation
Owner, Speleonics (Australia)
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